{"id":3474,"date":"2013-03-04T18:03:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T18:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/?p=3474"},"modified":"2023-09-18T17:11:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T17:11:35","slug":"occuprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2013\/03\/04\/occuprint\/","title":{"rendered":"#Occuprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/occuprint.org\/Posters\/GeneralStrikeMatch\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3475\" title=\"GeneralStrikeMatch\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2013\/03\/GeneralStrikeMatch-217x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2013\/03\/GeneralStrikeMatch-217x300.png 217w, https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2013\/03\/GeneralStrikeMatch.png 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of our\u00a0recent acquisitions is a poster collection created by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/927709316\/occuprint\">Occuprint<\/a> of the Occupy Wall Street Screen Printing Guild.\u00a0 The collection consists of\u00a0thirty-one posters which were selected from hundreds on the Occuprint <a href=\"http:\/\/occuprint.org\/\">website<\/a>.\u00a0 The materials were produced under creative commons allowing for free copying and usage as well as open submission by artists illustrating the occupy movement world wide.\u00a0 These logos\u00a0and images are now finding their way onto t-shirts,\u00a0buttons,\u00a0flyers and websites.\u00a0 The prints began as sketches and signage made\u00a0on\u00a0pizza boxes in Zuccotti\u00a0Park, New York during the Occupy Wall Street encampment which evolved into the polished and colorful images\u00a0printed by the guild.\u00a0 Demonstration art and signage is not an original artifact of the Occupy movement, as our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archivessearch.lib.uconn.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/599\">Poras Collection of Vietnam War Memorabilia<\/a> demonstrates;\u00a0infact the modern poster is\u00a0often reliant on the influences of\u00a0previous counter culture and purposefully\u00a0self-aware.\u00a0 However, this material\u00a0is a\u00a0representation of demonstration sign art which was never part of the demonstration itself, thereby creating a digital archive of art in a political vein originating across the globe to both mimic the Occupy Wall Street movement and symbolize the individual geographies of protest.\u00a0 Its appeal for\u00a0mass reproducibility, as\u00a0occured in previous eras of resistance and\u00a0demonstration, is in itself a form of protest to the commodification of art as\u00a0an industry for profit, a root cause of &#8220;the 99%&#8221; slogan.<\/p>\n<p>These posters can be viewed by appointment only, please contact the <a href=\"mailto:Graham.Stinnett@lib.uconn.edu\">curator<\/a>\u00a0of the Alternative Press Collection for details.\u00a0 A great resource of digitized demonstration posters from the 1960s and 1970s can be found at the <a href=\"http:\/\/collections.museumca.org\/?q=category\/2011-schema\/history\/political-posters\">Oakland Museum of California<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our\u00a0recent acquisitions is a poster collection created by Occuprint of the Occupy Wall Street Screen Printing Guild.\u00a0 The collection consists of\u00a0thirty-one posters which were selected from hundreds on the Occuprint website.\u00a0 The materials were produced under creative commons &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2013\/03\/04\/occuprint\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[150,152,151],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NKyO-U2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3474"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10005,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474\/revisions\/10005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}